Masnavi II, 1034-37
When you see that from a thought,
every craft in the world arises and subsists —
that houses and palaces and cities,
mountains and plains and rivers,
earth and ocean as well as sun and sky,
derive their life from it, as fish from the sea —
then why in your foolishness, O blind one,
does the body seem to you a Solomon,
and thought only as an ant?
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
From Persian transliteration by Yahyá Monastra
"Rumi: Daylight", Threshold Books, 1994
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